Thanks and congratulations for you work: awesome!
For my 8th Pi (a Pi 3) I decided it was time to try the GUI (all my others Pi are running headless, text only). I then followed your instructions to install Chromium. Everything smooth even it opens for first time on the page to install your youtube plugin. So easy to install and browsing the web on Pi 3 is perfectly acceptable.
100% good
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Hi @kusti8, with the release of chromium v50 video loading on websites and animations have started to stutter where it didn't before. Do you know if there's something I have to change or how to fix this?

acrogenesis wrote:Hi @kusti8, with the release of chromium v50 video loading on websites and animations have started to stutter where it didn't before. Do you know if there's something I have to change or how to fix this?

How would I go about if I want to basically disable chromium's cache to reduce disk usage? I already tried the "--disk-dir-cache-size=N" flag with no effect and then just simply set ".cache/chromium" to read-only, which seems to work, but I don't know if that's the proper way.

torekk wrote:How would I go about if I want to basically disable chromium's cache to reduce disk usage? I already tried the "--disk-dir-cache-size=N" flag with no effect and then just simply set ".cache/chromium" to read-only, which seems to work, but I don't know if that's the proper way.

That seems the only way, but are you sure you're seeing significant disk usage from caching ?

There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.

kusti8 wrote:That seems the only way, but are you sure you're seeing significant disk usage from caching ?

I'm not sure, but as long as chromium runs the green LED flashes more frequently than it does when I close chromium. I'm also using the Pi as a desktop replacement, so I'm basically trying to increase the lifetime of the SD card until I get an external harddrive.

kusti8 wrote:That seems the only way, but are you sure you're seeing significant disk usage from caching ?

I'm not sure, but as long as chromium runs the green LED flashes more frequently than it does when I close chromium. I'm also using the Pi as a desktop replacement, so I'm basically trying to increase the lifetime of the SD card until I get an external harddrive.

I wouldn't worry about it. Good SD cards last a long time and I doubt this will make any difference.

There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.

kusti8 wrote:That seems the only way, but are you sure you're seeing significant disk usage from caching ?

I'm not sure, but as long as chromium runs the green LED flashes more frequently than it does when I close chromium. I'm also using the Pi as a desktop replacement, so I'm basically trying to increase the lifetime of the SD card until I get an external harddrive.

I wouldn't worry about it. Good SD cards last a long time and I doubt this will make any difference.

All browsers cache a lot (though kweb has an option to disable caching, but it will slow down web access) and it is a wear on the SD card. My first SD card started to wear out after about 6 months. That's when I decided to move the root file system to a HDD. All my RPis are running from HDD now; it's much faster and more reliable - and much more disk space / $ (and I always need a lot).

Minimal Kiosk Browser (kweb)
Slim, fast webkit browser with support for audio+video+playlists+youtube+pdf+download
Optional fullscreen kiosk mode and command interface for embedded applications
Includes omxplayerGUI, an X front end for omxplayer